Wednesday, May 03, 2006
PROMISES DELIVERED! America’s greatest sports service the Dream Team at Godspicks.com goes 3-1 in the NBA including nailing the Postseason Game of the Year in which Miami routed Chicago by 14 points in a game that wasn’t even as close as the blowout indicated. We also nailed Dandy Dogs on San Diego and Oakland in MLB. Dandy dogs are dogs of 140 or more in MLB.
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Ø Another game in which the road team is 8-1 combined in the starting pitchers’ starts
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NBA
Wizards-Cavaliers
Associated Press
Both franchises have struggled in Game Fives as the Wizards are just 3-18 all-time, while Cleveland is 2-6. The series is tied at two-two, and Game Six is Friday in Washington.
Bucks-Pistons
Green Bay Post Gazette
Detroit hosts Milwaukee tonight in Game 5 of their first-round NBA playoff series with a 3-1 lead. When the Pistons have had a chance to end a series since the 2003 playoffs, they have won nine of their last 10 games — with the only loss coming last year at San Antonio in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Drawing comparisons to how franchises have done in previous years can be misleading for some teams and their changing faces. But the Pistons are using four of the same starters for the fourth straight postseason, and the other, Rasheed Wallace, is a Piston in the playoffs for a third year in a row. Experience should be an edge against a team with only one starter — Michael Redd — that had played in a postseason game before this year. The Bucks plan to defend Chauncey Billups with Redd, instead of T.J. Ford, after the All-Star point guard scored 24 of 34 points after halftime to lead Detroit to a 109-99 victory Monday night. “We’re going to try to put a bigger guy on him and have T.J. chase around Rip (Richard Hamilton) a little bit more,” Redd said. Billups is leading Detroit with 23.5 points per game in the playoffs.
Hamilton has been easier to defend than he usually is because he’s slowed by a bruised thigh and a sprained ankle. The shooting guard is averaging 16.8 points — down from his career playoff average of 20.9 — on just 34.5 percent shooting. Detroit coach Flip Saunders isn’t considering resting Hamilton. “You can’t just shut guys down,” Saunders said. “It’s not that bad, really.”
MLB
Los Angeles-San Diego
MLB.com
Over the first 10 games of the season, the Dodgers offense averaged 6.8 runs. Over the next 16 games, it averaged half that, 3.4. So manager Grady Little said it was time for “a little tinkering.” Here’s Little’s definition of tinkering: Nobody from Monday night’s batting order returned in the same place on Tuesday night against Arizona. Slumping shortstop and leadoff hitter Rafael Furcal and center fielder Kenny Lofton, who have batted first and second since Lofton returned from a calf injury, swapped spots. J.D. Drew moved from No. 3 to cleanup, slumping cleanup hitter Jeff Kent dropped to fifth and No. 5 hitter Nomar Garciaparra moved up to third. Andre Ethier, called up to replace the disabled Ricky Ledee, made his Major League debut in left field batting sixth. Catcher Dioner Navarro, who did not play on Monday night, hit eighth. And Oscar Robles batted seventh in place of Bill Mueller, who was given the night off.
Pirates-Mets
NY Sun
Since becoming the first team in major league history to build a five-game division lead after only 12 games, the Mets won a franchise-record 16 games in April to open a six-game lead over the rival Braves and Phillies. In fact, Baseball Prospectus’s adjusted playoff odds report gives the Mets a 70% chance of winning the NL East and a 74% chance of making the postseason, even at this early hour.
Blue Jays-Red Sox
Toronto Globe and Mail
The loss last night left the 13-12 Blue Jays with a 2-3 record on this seven-game trip. The Red Sox’ game against the New York Yankees was rained out last night, meaning the pitching matchup tonight, weather permitting, will be Roy Halladay (3-1, 2.84 earned run average) against the Red Sox’ Josh Beckett (3-1, 4.50). Josh Towers (0-5, 10.45) will pitch against Matt Clement (2-2, 6.14) tomorrow night.
Baltimore-Texas
Toronto Globe and Mail
The Orioles’ bullpen is a mess, too. After Monday’s 9-7 loss to the Blue Jays, in which Toronto pounded out 16 hits, the club designated Jim Brower for assignment and optioned Eddy Rodriguez, purchasing the contracts of Julio Manon and Kurt Birkins from Triple-A Ottawa. They are the 12th and 13th different relievers used by the Orioles this season.
Angels-Tigers
Detroit Free Press
Jeff Weaver returns to Comerica Park to pitch tonight for the Angels. It was four years ago this July that Dave Dombrowski, in his first big move as Tigers general manager, swapped Weaver to the Yankees. This will be Weaver’s second start in Detroit against the Tigers. The first came in 2003, when as a Yankee he lost to the Tigers team that lost 119 games. Weaver has made one other start against the Tigers—he beat them for the Dodgers in Los Angeles last season.
Royals-Twins
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Twins went to Kansas City last week hoping to right the ship. They won two of three games but didn’t play well, and any momentum they hoped to gain was quickly quashed during the weekend debacle in Detroit. So they’ll try again against the majors’ worst team. The Twins’ lineup should be salivating at the chance to face Mays, the former Twin who has lasted into the sixth inning in only one of his five starts for his new team.
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